Dove

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Dove, Drawing, Helo, Icon, Love, Peace, Safe, Sketch, Sketch app, SymbolLeave a comment

Someday Peace and Love will be more important than War. Nature and the Environment will become recognised for how important they are. Maybe symbols of peace, like the dove, will get the message across. We need to take these concepts seriously. We need to stop being selfish and realise we shouldn’t be self centred. People in all walks of life, in this country, and abroad, are struggling. War wastes resources and ruins lives. We need to support each other not attack and deplore. As the song says. Let there be peace all over the world…

pink

Posted on December 15, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Digital drawing, Learning, photoshop7, Practice, Random objects, Sketching, Still lifeLeave a comment

Well its sort of finished….digital drawing on wacom tablet- oh Im out of practice….Random found pink objects with a green background for contrast and beige speaker and table top to show up the pink better…

a few years ago I would have been able to do better than this.. you know what practice does? It makes you do things better. In my case I used to do digital drawings virtually every day. I knew what buttons to press, what brushes to choose. So now I have to learn again and im definitly going to watch some videos on using photoshop and get a later version, this was done in Photoshop7… my very old version, I just don’t like the idea of paying a monthly fee to use the newer versions….

Digital drawing WIP

Posted on December 15, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digitsl draeing, Drawing, Random objects, Sketching, Still life, Stylus, Wacom, Work in progressLeave a comment

Trying to draw on the computer using my Wacom tablet. It’s hard because I usually doodle with a finger on my phone or with a stylus on a tablet. I actually find this harder to do, and I need practice. This is for a #bandofsketchers prompt for today. If I get it done I will post it here. Back to work…

Turning a blurry photo into an abstract.

Posted on December 14, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Design, Life, Oily, Photo, Photodirector, Picture, SmearedLeave a comment

With oone filter. I used this to show how you can change a photo using just one filter. In this case the cat was transformed into an apparent oil painting abstract by using the second style filter in the Photodirector app. This smears out the details into swirls and patterns. It also makes the edges of the areas of colour more obvious.

Purple, today’s prompt

Posted on December 13, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Band of sketchers, Drawing, Drying, Felt pens, Picture, Purple, Settee, Sketch, WetLeave a comment

My purple coat that I walked nine miles in. It’s still wet! #bandofsketchers prompt was purple. Sitting on the settee with a stripey cover on it. I’m surprised how mant purple felt pens I’ve got. It is one of my favourite colours. X

Cat toys story

Posted on December 12, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Fun, Humour, Joy, Life, Play, Poem, Poetry, Sketch, Story, ToysLeave a comment

Run from the cat

Bounce away

Scuttle mouse

Flap your ears

Fly through the air

Roll under the sofa

Scatter and sway

Never get caught

By the cat!

Another butterfly

Posted on December 11, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital glitter, Drawing, Fun, Layers, Paper cut snowflakeLeave a comment

Digital drawing on top of a photo of a paper cut snowflake. Then I put it through some filters and added digital glitter. I must be channeling summer! I’m pleased how it has a three dimensional feel.

Butterfly idea

Posted on December 11, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Butterfly, ddesign, Drawing, Dulicated, Insect, Paper cutting, Sketching, Spiral, SymmetryLeave a comment

Drew a spiral and duplicated it. (I think it looked like the cross section of a trunk). Then I drew round the duplicated pieces in black (using a symmetry tool so both sides match). It’s quite simple to do. I guess if I was cutting it out of paper I could have folded it in half and got a similar effect….

Doodled face

Posted on December 11, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Doodling, Learning, Materials, Picture, Playing, Sand, Sketching, SpaghettiLeave a comment

We have come to the end of the semester at college but have been asked to create a new way of illustration over the holidays. So what do I do? I’m thinking of boiling some spaghetti and trying to colour it then manipulate it? Or getting some play sand and drawing with that. It’s not something an illustration would normally be made of, but why not?

Another doodle

Posted on December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Christmas, Digital doodle, Elf, Fun, Profile, SketchLeave a comment

And now I’ve tried doodling in another app. This is meant to be an Elf? I guess for Christmas. I can draw faces from life and from photos . But from my imagination? I’m out of practice, especially on digital devices. I quite like this, its in the ArtRage app and I like the metallic effect you can get. But again, I’m lacking in knowledge of how it works, I’m not proficient yet.

Does anyone like drawing digitally? Have you got any tips or have I got to go and look at a lot of YouTube videos to learn? I ask because I learn by playing, but then don’t know basic skills like how to use layers in photoshop properly….

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